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Domestic drug companies to keep hot eyes on Amaryl market.
The domestic pharmaceutical companies are keenly interests in the Amaryl (glymepiride: a anti-diabetic drug) market since the patent protection already expired in Korea and its post market surveillance (PMS) also ende...
KIPO to help finance registration of promising foreign patent
The Korean Intellectual Property Office says it will support financing (i.e., proxy expense, translation fee) of individual and/or small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reduce their financial burden in a bid t...
Share of larger wholesalers with combined turnover of more than 100 billion won up
The statistics compiled by the Tax Union shows that with the share of larger wholesalers increasing, the combined turnover of domestic wholesalers has been surging on a year-on-year; 2.1602 trillion won in 2000, 2.938...
Pharmaceutical Affairs Development Association to launch.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesale Development Association has changed its title as the Korea Pharmaceutical Affairs Development Association (KPADA) and elected Mr. Lim Kyeong-whan the new president.
The Associatio...
Domestic pharmaceutical industry faces murky economic outlook
Market analysts said that confronted with the increasing dismal outlook, a number of pharmaceutical firms have reportedly failed to achieve their sales target in the first quarter of this year due to sluggish sales in...
Government and Civil Export Support Headquarter to be formed.
The government and civil export support group seems to be established in an attempt to divert the trade deficit problems and to foster the drug industry as a nation's strategic project.
The KFDA announced that th...
Health Minister encountered whipping from National Assembly.
In the National Assembly's health and welfare committee's meeting on Mar. 31 the MOHW presented 3 steps of development plans for the national health insurance system and also pledged to launch the integration of the n...
Dongshin Pharm and Wyeth Korea to seek strategic alliance
Dongshin Pharm said on April 1 that it made a co-marketing arrangement with Wyeth Korea for the following ten items: Varidase tab. (anti-inflammatory enzyme preparation), Minocin cap. (oral antibiotic), Ozex tab. (ora...
Poll of Korean people suggests pharmacist profession is less attractive
Korean people's preference for pharmacist as a profession is extremely low, a poll showed recently.
In an interview-based survey conducted on 2,514 people aged more than 15 during June and July of last year by the...
Pharmaceutical industry to support under national core industrial strategy.
The MOHW determined intensively to support the pharmaceutical industry as a national core industrial project for the upcoming generation, aiming at the profit restructure improvement by the overseas market development...
